The 10 coolest open-source software tools in 2025 (so far) include software for developing AI agentic applications, querying ...

The coolest open-source software tools in 2023 include the Ansible IT automation application, Blender animated content creation software, LibreOffice personal productivity applications, OpenAI ...

Open source software is any kind of program that anyone in the world can download, modify and distribute it without paying fees. It comes in a variety of flavors, from open source CRMs to cloud ...

Open source software powers much of the internet and apps you use everyday. But is it safe, and what (if any) precautions ...

Now, free software has been around since the first computers, but the philosophy of both free software and open source are both much newer. In the 1970s and 80s, companies rose up which sought to ...

If you’re a software developer today—or a cloud engineer, or a data scientist, or anyone who works with code—then open source software is like the air that you breathe. But open source wasn ...

How open-source software works. OSS is shared in a public repository, granting access to anyone who wants to work on the source code. However, open-source software tends to come with a ...

Updates are another double-edged sword. Open-source programs with vibrant communities tend to be updated frequently, but ...

The entire realm of open-source software could get a performance boost if all goes well with a plan to overhaul a crucial programming tool called GCC. Almost all open-source software is built with ...

The world of open-source software is about to go through another tectonic change. But unlike earlier changes brought about by corporate acquisitions, this time it’s thanks to the growing series ...

Well, actually, no (see the sidebar, “Best open source programming language”). But we’re more than ready to declare winners of the open source sweepstakes in IDEs, rich Internet apps, AJAX ...

The entire realm of open-source software could get a performance boost if all goes well with a plan to overhaul a crucial programming tool called GCC. Almost all open-source software is built with ...